ISSUE 73: November 2019 Lancashire Book of the Year 2020 Launches! Following our students’ involvement with Lancashire Book of the Year 2019, we recently launched Lancashire Book of the Year 2020 with a book tasting! Our student book judges were invited to the 'delicious words cafe' where Ms Hudson, English teacher, was their ‘book waiter’ and allowed them to sample some of the books and make their 'tasting notes'. After five courses, students chose their favourite to take home and start reading. It was a fantastic afternoon that saw our judges discussing their first impressions of the books on offer. Lancashire Book of the Year allows students to become the judges in a book award. The competition is run by Lancashire Library Service and is the longest running young people’s regional book award in the country! Students meet every two weeks to discuss the books they are reading and it runs from the autumn term all the way into next June. Our judges’ first task is to make sure that each of our 16 long-listed books is read at least twice by January. It's a tall order but we are sure that they are up to the challenge. Once the books are read, there will be a series of meetings to shortlist the books before a final judging event where students will be able to vote on their winning book at County Hall in Preston. In the summer, the winner will be announced at a celebration event at UCLan. Ms Hudson said that, "It is always lovely to listen to and work with students who are excited about books and reading. Lancashire Book of the Year allows students to have their opinions and voices heard. It is a great way for them to experi- ence books they wouldn’t normally come across and be able to share this experience with each other.” You can find out more about the Lancashire Book of the Year competition here: https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries-and- archives/libraries/lancashires-book-of-the-year/ Keep up to date with their progress through the social media account for our English & Drama Department! Twitter: @SCEnglishDept Instagram: sc_english_dept Community Work: Food Bank In recent assemblies, students have been focusing on one of our Shuttleworth values: Community. Student Council representatives from each form group have come together to raise money and collect items for Burnley’s Food Bank in the approach to Christmas. The Food Bank has delivered food and other essentials to thousands of local people since it launched. Mr Greenhalgh and the Student Council are working with Spacious Place, who run Burnley’s Food Bank, to collect items that are currently most needed by the food bank. These include, but are not limited to: Breakfast cereals Pasta & Rice Tinned food Tea & Coffee Toiletries Cleaning Products Students will receive more information over the next few weeks. There will be additional fund-raising, including staff and student quizzes—we will keep you updated! Images courtesy of Spacious Place. Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme is growing at Shuttleworth College! Currently the are over 40 Year 10 students who are well on their way to achieving their Bronze Award. The Scheme has been running since 1956 and has three levels of Awards: Bronze, Silver and Gold. Students can move up through these levels between the ages of 14-24. The aim of the scheme is not to compete between each other, but to set personal challenges and build resilience and confidence; this means that Duke of Edinburgh awards are prized by other education providers and by employers. In order to achieve their Bronze award students have to complete three months of volunteering, a physical challenge and a skills challenge. Our students have been hard at work on these challenges and we can really see their confidence, teamwork and leadership skills growing. This has been especially wonderful for the English department who have had the pleasure of being treated with homemade cakes as part of a skills challenge to develop baking skills! We have also spent time learning how to read maps using a compass and put students to the test with a practice walk around the grounds of Gawthorpe Hall. Students were excellent and are ready to begin their training for their camping expedition. Watch this space for more news of our Duke of Edinburgh students. They are hard at work on their challenges at the moment, but it won’t be long before they are off on their expeditions, camping in the wilderness! Mrs Fox will soon be recruiting for the next group of Duke of Edinburgh students. So, if you are in Year 9 currently and think this sounds interesting make sure you look out for upcoming information and events! Image courtesy for DofE North. Parent Forum Winter Fair Careers Fairs Following the success of their fundraising for Macmillan During the last term both Year 11 and Year 9 Cancer Support with a coffee morning in September, our have attended a Careers Fair. At the fairs, Parent Forum are holding a Winter Fair here at students had the chance to speak to a variety of Shuttleworth on Thursday 5 December, 5-8pm. education, training and employment providers to This will be a wonderful family-friendly event with plenty of help them gather information about their future fun activities, craft stalls, food and community cheer. choices and make decisions about post-16 options. Come along to enjoy baked treats and candy floss, candles and beauty gifts and even treats for family pets! You and For Year 9, the Careers Fair was a great your family will be able to enjoy activities including face opportunity for them to put their GCSE studies painting, art and games. into the context of progression routes; they could see where success in a few years’ time will There will also be some very special guests including Bertie take them and the range of choice they will Bee and Chase from ‘Paw Patrol’. have. And, of course, no Fair would be complete without a Raffle! For Year 11, the Careers Fair marked the start of If you or your company would like to donate any prizes, their research and decisions around their please get in touch with Mrs Price (email address below). destinations when they leave Shuttleworth next summer. They found out about Open Events for All proceeds from the Winter Fair will come back to Colleges and apprenticeship providers and had Shuttleworth College via the Parent Forum so come along opportunities to discuss different pathways. and join and fantastic fundraising evening! For any Careers Information, Advice & Guidance, students should see Mrs Ackroyd, Careers Leader. Image: Year 9 Career Dreams Join the Parent Forum The Parent Forum is still open to new members. If you would like to join the Parent Forum to attend the meetings and provide a parent/carer’s viewpoint or sup- port the work that goes on, please contact Mrs Price on [email protected] You can also join the Facebook page (SC Parent Forum) for more information. Sporting Success! Congratulations to all students who competed in the Burnley Schools Cross Country Championships at Towneley Park in October. There were some fantastic individual and team performances. Stanley Stephenson was the stand-out individual achievement of the day as he came first in the Year 7 Boys race helping the Year 7 Boys team come home in 3rd position. In the Year 7 Girls race, Olivia Palmer was 5th and the team finished in an amazing 2nd position. Both our Year 8/9 Girls and Boys teams came second in their respective competitions, with some brilliant individual performances: Maisey Devlin (3rd), Shannon McCrea (8th), Sultan Iyanda (6th) and Nathan Lonsdale (7th). The outstanding team performance of the day was the Year 10/11 Girls who won their event with individual performances claiming 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th places: Bethany Wheatcroft, Hannah Eccles, Emily Maclachlan and Katie Miller . The Year 10/11 boys rounded off a successful day with a second placed finish; Osasu Agho Peter (3rd), Jacob Routh (8th) were our highest placed individuals. All the above students have been selected to represent Burnley at the Lancashire Schools Championships at Witton Park in January so we are delighted with their achievements and wish them luck in the next stages of the Championships. Image: Stanley Stephenson with his gold medal Student Council Update—written by Mia Cromack On Tuesday 15th October, we held a student council with Mrs England, Miss Roach and 13 student council members present; Mia Cromack and Cameron Wilkins, who are the leaders of the Student Council, Emily Cooper, Lucas Kay, Liana Sinkarenko, Emily-Jae Smith, Joshua Springett, Matthew Hanley, Max Howell, Gabriella Lambert, Ella Drabble, Maisey Devlin and Ruby Cain. We discussed 5 key points, the first being the rewards system. In school, reward points are given and tracked on SIMS, with students only knowing their total on Mondays in form. This was appeared to be inconsistent when speaking about this in the meeting, with the majority of us not knowing how many reward points we have. Furthermore, some students think it appears unfair to reward points to students, who usually do not focus in class, when they have done something that other students do on a day-to-day basis. There was the idea of reward points having a display board in class rooms/ form rooms and around schools with inter-form competitions. When asked about recognition through text messages and post cards home, we came to the conclusion that, as a majority, we prefer to have a post card congratulating us on our success, as it is something of physical value.